RAPTURE

RAPTURE 2023, a hallucinatory and sharp-edged short film by Andrea Khôra featuring performing artist and researcher, King Lexie.

RAPTURE uses live footage and AI animation to explore the collision of psychedelics and capitalism. It’s been screened at museums across Europe — and its NYC March opening marks its U.S. debut. Both Andrea and King are from the U.S, though we are currently London based- facts that have undoubtedly shaped our perspectives on the “psychedelic renaissance.”

Our collaboration was sparked after MAPS 2023 — not at the event itself, but in its wake. Each of us was engaged in research or staging collaborative, performative interventions within the contested landscape surrounding the largest psychedelic conference in history — a locus for the so-called new psychedelic revolution.

As Jules Evans writes, this current psychedelic wave has been “much more starch and medicalized” than previous ones. Artists like Andrea are offering a cultural counterpoint — asking where pleasure, critique, and the poetics of experience still belong, and where they can lead”.

Current and Past Exhibitions:

2025 - Jeu de Paume, Paris.

2025- Museum of Sex, New York.

2025- Vienna Digital Cultures Festival, Vienna.

2025- Blessed Foundation, London.

2025- Poetics of Encryption, Prague.

Director: Andrea Khôra
Assistant Director: Charles Stanton-Jones @crsj88
Writer: Andrea Khôra
Music and Sound Design: Wordcolour @wordcolour_
Audio Recordist: Jake Lee-Savage @jakeleesavage
Cinematographer: Anton Berggren @aaberggren
Editor & AI Animator: Andrea Khôra
VFX: LOKA @loka_vision
AI Consultant: Semilla.AI Studio

Featuring: King Lexie @king_lexie & Tom Cray @tom_cray_yourself

RAPTURE was co-commissioned by KW Institute of Contemporary Art @kwinstitutefcontemporaryart Kunsthal Charlottenborg @kunsthalcharlottenborg
and Blessed Foundation @blessedart_org